A CELEBRATED VICTORIAN SHEEP-RUN.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1475, 26 November 1884, Page 2

A CELEBRATED VICTORIAN SHEEP-RUN.

The Terrinallum' freehold of 47.320 acres of the., finest pasture land for merino sheep in the Western district of Victoria, with 56,078 sheep, includ ing the famous Terrinalluni stud flock, was offered at. public auction in Mel--1 ourne on August 20, but was with-' diawn, the highest price per acre offered being 665., while the reserve price was £8 12s 6d. per acre. On August 27 the celebrated estate of th? late Mr John Cumming was purchased

by Messrs William Bailey and Agar Wynn, of Ballarat, at a p ice withheld, but believed to be close upon a quarter of a million. In the old squatting days of Victoria the Terrinalluia flo»k, then the property of the Clyde Company was regarded as one of the finest in the Western district. Tiie late Mi John Cumming purchased the estate and flock iii the year 1857, and o few years after he selected the finest ewes in the breeding flock to form the stud. Before he owned the flock none but rains from the finest flocks iv Tasmania and Victoria had been used as sires, and after the formation of the stud flock the selection of rains was more carefully and critically made. A peculiarity in the breeding of the flo.k was the introduction iv 1873 of some imported Silt-siau rams from the flock of the Countess Stosch, the eff-ct of which on the sheep can still be traced in the highbred heads and beautiful character of the wool.